Educational Institutions and Programs

North America

API (American Petroleum Institute)

Washington, DC, U.S.A.

API's Training and Certification Programs continue to serve a vital role in the global oil and natural gas industry. Every day, industry relies on equipment, products and services approved by one of API's certification programs.

www.api.org

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Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement

BSEE operates the National Offshore Training Center with specially developed curriculum focusing on keeping our experienced inspectors current on new technologies and processes and ensuring that our new inspectors are given the proper foundation for carrying out their duties rigorously and effectively.

www.bsee.gov

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Corona College

Grand Falls - Windsor, Newfoundland, Canada

Corona College offers a number of training programs and courses relating to various types of drilling, mining, and industry safety practices. See the website for more details.

www.coronacollege.com

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Drill SkillTraining

Malaga, WA, USA

An industry developed training course providing an entry level insight into working in the drilling industry.

www.drillskill.com.au

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Fleming College - Resources Drilling & Blasting Programs

Fleming College - Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

Offers a comprehensive 2 year program covering virtually all aspects of the drilling and blasting industry.

www.flemingc.on.ca

International School of Well Drilling

Lakeland, Florida, U.S.

Offers 4 week entry level induistry training as well as 1-2 day continuing education seminars.

www.welldrillingschool.com

Maritime Drilling Schools Ltd.

Maritime Drilling Schools Ltd. offers entry-level training for the oil & gas and mining industry.

www.mdslimited.ca

Murchison Drilling Schools, Inc.

Murchison Drilling Schools (MDS) was founded at the request of major oil, contractor, and service companies to provide training in sound operational drilling practices. From its inception, MDS has focused on developing leadership and supervisory skills in foremen so that they could effectively supervise a drilling operation. MDS uses highly qualified and experienced instructors who, not only pass on the lessons learned in the past, but also impart new technology for today's more complex drilling operations.

www.murchisondrillingschools.com

Norcat Training

Sudbury, Ontario, Canada

The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology Inc. (NORCAT) is a not-for-profit, non-share incorporated company based in Sudbury, Ontario Canada. For over a decade NORCAT has been a leader in occupational health and safety training, mine training, technology innovation and commercialization.

Orbit Garant Drilling School

Val-d'Or, Quebec, Canada.

This personalized training program, was exclusively elaborated to ensure proper training for polyvalent workers. The program is especially designed to meet our quality standards and strongly encourages pride in a "well done" job. Of a global total of 1600 hours, 900 hours are assigned to practice and theory and some 700 hours on a working site.

www.orbitgarant.com

Post Training (Petroleum Oriented Safety Training)

Barrie, Ontario, Canada

The Petroleum Oriented Safety Training (POST) is a safety orientation program which many oil companies require as the minimum acceptable safety training to access their sites. This one-hour program outlines the required safety documentation for petroleum sites and focuses on behaviour towards safety and proper personal protective equipment.

www.posttraining.ca

Red Deer College

Red Deer, Alberta, Canada

Red Deer College offers a comprehensive water Well Driller Program as a pumps installer course. See the website for a complete listing of courses offered by the program.

www.rdc.ab.ca

SEDC (Shallow Exploration & Drilling Committee)

Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota & Wyoming, U.S.A.

The purpose of each committee meeting is to present information that will assist all those engaged in exploration drilling in keeping abreast with new techniques and reviewing or perhaps even hearing for the first time the old tried and true method.

SEDC.com

Texas Drilling School

Texas, U.S.A.

Have your offshore, intelligent completion, extended reach, horizontal, deepwater, or otherwise high profile project drilling and completion team members join the thousands who have benefited from various planning workshops presented by Mark Ramsey.

www.tdaweb.com

Australian College of Mining

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The Australian College of Mining is a registered training organisation which provides nationally accredited vocational training in the mining industry throughout Australia. The College is committed to providing high quality training, competency assessment, and site and enterprise specific health and safety management and training plans in partnership with enterprises operating in the mining industry.

www.acm.edu.au

Australian Drilling Industry Training Committee Ltd.

Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia

Australian Drilling Industry Training Committee (ADITC) is a not-for-profit industry organisation that exists to improve the skills and professionalism of the industry - in our own industry's eyes, in the eyes of our contract principals, and in public perception. Our Board is formed by the Presidents and Chairmen of the drilling associations in all drilling sectors (oil and gas, waterwell, mineral exploration and mineral production, coal seam gas, environmental, geothermal, foundation/construction, blast hole, trenchless technology, seismic, geotechnical).

aditc.com.au

sedc.unl.edu

Emergency Response & Safety Training

Jandakot, Perth, Australia

ERGT is a leading commercial training organisation providing emergency response and safety training. Currently we provide training in five major disciplines - Offshore Survival, Safety Skills, Emergency Response, Emergency Command and Rig Safety - to people working in the oil and gas industry, downstream petrochemical, maritime, mining, defence and aviation sectors.

www.ergt.com.au

Taranaki Drilling School

Bell Block, New Plymouth, New Zealand

TDS is an organisation set up to provide specific training to the drilling industry. Currently we are offering computer-based interactive Techno Media courses in Oil well Drilling and Introduction to Well Control.

www.td.school.nz

Aberdeen Drilling School

Aberdeen Scotland, Texas U.S.A., Safat Kuwait

Aberdeen Drilling Schools (ADS) is a training company with facilities in Scotland, United States and Kuwait. The company specialises in the design and delivery of operationally relevant short and long training courses and the production of related technical manuals and documentation for the petroleum industry worldwide.

www.aberdeen-drilling.com

Malagda Drilling School

Malagda, Spain

An oil and gas drilling industry training organization providing internationally recognised examination facilities and drilling and well control courses that include drilling equipment, drilling practices and technology, well control, and other drilling industry technical training in English, Spanish and other languages.

www.mdsspain.com

Moody International

West Sussex, England

The Moody International Group is a worldwide technical services organisation dedicated to reducing clients' risks by providing technical inspection services, technical staffing services, consulting and training on a global basis and management system certification on a local basis.

www.moodyint.com